Presenter Dr. Paul Dorsey is an Oracle ACE, the founder of Dulcian, Inc., an Oracle consulting firm, and president Emeritus of the NYOUG. He sat down with Oracle Magazine senior editor Jeff Erickson at the Kaleidoscope Conference 2009 in Monterey,…

Blue Button is a simple concept: give patients’ access to their own data. The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) first used the Blue Button logo on its patient portal in 2010 ,By clicking on the button, individuals could download…

A tip/funny story from our colleague Grigoriy Novikov: There was one project with which I was involved that required a lot of different tools used by a lot of developers with different fields of expertise. The Java developer group was…

Michael Rosenblum published this article in the ODTUG Journal in 2012. The Introduction is below: Changes are inevitable in any information system. Even with the best possible requirements analysis, it is extremely hard to anticipate all of the potential changes…

Expert PL/SQL Practices for Oracle Developers and DBA’s was released on August 1, 2011. It was written by 15 PL/SQL senior developers and DBAs. Since one of them is my colleague and friend, Michael Rosenblum (Misha), I got the chance to…

We needed to create a comma-separated list of items out of a column. We wanted “Red,Orange,Blue,Black,White”, and in the database we had Red Orange Blue Black White Grigoriy Novikov came up with a number of solutions: Solution 1: The basic…

If you are trying to install some of the Oracle Development Tools (Oracle Forms, Oracle Reports, Oracle Designer) in a Windows 7 environment and you need access to the Registry, you can find those entries by using regedit in the…

Find tips for creating efficient PL/SQL code If you know a bit about SQL, this book will make PL/SQL programming painless! Do you need to get up to speed on PL/SQL programming? Read this book to find out about code…

First we need to recognize that the Business Rules Forum (BRF) folks see rules as pretty big things. Ron Ross talks about the possibility of 1000 or more rules in an ERP. I think of those as analysis rules. The more detailed implementation…

Paul Dorsey and Michael Rosenblum published this article in the IOUG Web Architecture Best Practices Booklet (Collab’09 edition) in 2009. The Introduction is below: Many of the performance tuning techniques applied to client/server applications that consisted of rewriting poorly written SQL code and tuning the database…

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